| Names |
KAUSHIK BASU |
| Date of
Birth |
January 09, 1952 |
| Identity |
Indian economist
and academic |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1989: The National
Mahalanobis Memorial Medal
- 1990: UGC-Prabhavananda
Award for Economics
- 1991: Fellow of the
Econometric Society
- 2008: Padma Bhushan Award,
from Government of India
- 2010: (Honoris Causa) for
"Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Economics",
University of Lucknow
- 2012: D.Litt.
(Honoris Causa), Assam University
- 2013: Doctorate of Humane
Letters, Fordham University
- 2013: Doctor of Literature
(Honoris Causa) for "outstanding contribution in theoretical
economics both as researcher and as a teacher", IIT Bombay.
- 2013: Elected Fellow of The
World Academy of Science, Trieste.
|
| Special
Achievements / Events |
- He is Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the
World Bank.
- He is on leave from Cornell University where he is the
C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of
Economics.
- Prior to that he was the Chairman of the Department of
Economics and director, Center for Analytic Economics at
Cornell University.
- Till July 2012 he served as the Chief Economic
Adviser to the Government of India.
- He is also the Jury Chair for the Infosys Prize 2013 for
the discipline of Social Sciences.
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